Climate change video FAQ's

The answers to climate change are here... These are the most frequently asked questions about climate change determined by you - Greenpeace supporters. Our busy climate campaigners have sat down for a video one-to-one to give you the answers.

The answers to climate change are here... These are the most frequently asked questions about climate change determined by you - Greenpeace supporters. Our busy climate campaigners have sat down for a video one-to-one to give you the answers.

What can you do for the climate? Help save it.
1. Get a copy of 'How to save the climate'.
2. Tell our world leaders they must go to the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen and make a strong deal for our climate.
3. Take political action in your own community. Write to your local government representative. The time is now.

Climate change involves a lot of acronyms. While the number of acronyms is not directly contributing to changes in our climate, they are contributing to the complexity of the issue.

COPs
Conferences of the Parties - an annual meeting of the signatories to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) that assesses the progress made on dealing with climate change and negotiates legally binding obligations for countries participating. This year COP-15 - also referred to as the UN Climate Summit - takes place in December in Copenhagen, Denmark.

MOPs
Meeting of the States Parties - a UN term used to confuse you. No. Actually a UN term that can refer to various meetings, including meetings related to the Law of the Sea and the UN Convention on climate change.

IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - a scientific body that evaluates the risk of climate change caused by human activity. They have a website - it's very informative.

CCS
Carbon Capture and Storage - is a theoretical approach to reducing the carbon emissions from energy sources like coal by capturing the CO2 and storing it underground. No coal power plant is currently capable of capturing and storing its carbon emissions. (Learn why carbon capture and storage won't save the climate - read the Greenpeace False Hope report.)

GHGs
Greenhouse gases - gases in the atmosphere which include water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and cholorofluorocarbons - some of which, like carbon dioxide, are contributing to climate change.